[ExI] Oxford scientists edge toward quantum PC with 10b qubits.

[John Clark]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
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> I don't think anyone seriously said that chess grandmastery required true intelligence

On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Dave Sill wrote:

> Like Richard I don't think anyone really thought chess required true intelligence.

Godel Escher Bach by Douglas R Hofstadter is the best book I have every read in my life full stop. However on page 678 of this 1979 book he says:

"There may be programs that can beat anyone at chess, but they will not be exclusive chess players. They will be programs of GENERAL [his emphasis not mine] intelligence."

Twenty years later Hofstadter said that sentence was "embarrassingly bad".

 John K Clark   

 


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